338 '- PROCEEDINGS. 
The names of the Committee-men of the different Sections of 
the Society were announced, viz. :— 
nese 22 —Chairman: H.C. Russell, B.A., F.R.A.S., FMS. 
Secretary : W. J. MacDonnell, RAS. Committee : 
.G. A. Wright, M.R.C.S., E.; J. Brooks, E.RBGS., 
w. J. Conder, and J. Tebbutt, FRAS. 
Microscopy.—Chairman: H. G. A. Wright, M. ee 
Secretary: P. R. Pedley. Committee: Dr. Morris 
F. B. . G. D. Hirst, and T. Brindley. 
Medical.—Chairm Dr. C. K. Mackellar. Secretaries: 
Drs. Sydney Jo ones, and H. N. MacLaurin, M.A. Com- 
mittee: Drs. Cox, ‘Schuette, Cecil — and Alfred 
Roberts, M.R.C. S. 
The Hon. Professor Surtu, C.M.G., President, then read his 
address. 
WEDNESDAY, 1 JUNE, 1881. 
H. C. Russet, B.A., F.R.AS,, President, in the Chair. 
About thirty members were present. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The ears & geateman were duly elected ordinary members 
of the Societ: 
Barff, ef E, M.A., Sydney University. 
Helms, Albert, Ph.D. She y University. 
Elliott Elizabeth Bay. 
Foster, w be 'M. L.A., Newtown. 
Reid, William, Sydney. 
Roberts , ©. J., Potts’s Point. a 
The eictibiukon of nine new = were read for the seco 
time, and of seven for the first ti 
gpa donations were eid upon the table. is 
It mounced that the sum of £29 18s. had eee ¢hat 
scribd © the Building Fund during the present yeat, 
E. Ross Fairfax, F. C. Griffiths, and the peut of one 
Smith, iol M.G., had also promised an annual subseription 
— ived 
It was also announced that the sum of £20 had pene ono 
from members of the Royal Society of N.8.W., towards 
lishment of a Biological Laboratory at Watson's Bay- . x8, ; 
The Chairman then read a paper by Mr. H. Ling a 
on “The Climate of Mackay, Quee ” also one by. 
Abbott, entitled “ Notes of a Journey on ‘the Darling.” 
